Benjamin F. Martin
Katheryn J., Lewis C., and Benjamin Price Professor


231C Himes Hall
578-4497
bmarti9@lsu.edu

COURSES TAUGHT:  

Research Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Reading Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Europe
France Since 1770
Europe in the Nineteenth Century
The World Since 1960
Western Civilization Since 1500

INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:   

Social and political issues in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, especially 1870 to 1940.


BRIEF VITA

Education:  

University of North Carolina, Ph. D. (1974)
Davidson College, A. B. cum laude (1969)
The Episcopal High School in Virginia, Graduate (1965)

Awards and Honors:  

Roselyn Boneno Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006 (awarded by Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society)
Phi Beta Kappa
--Member, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award Committee, 2000-02.
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow
John Motley Morehead Foundation Fellow
Georges Lurcy Foundation Fellow
Encyclopedia Britannica: Advisor for Modern European History
United States Department of State: Briefing on the background and agenda for the French presidency of the European Union (July-December 2000), presented before the Naval Command Center at the Pentagon, 24 June 2000.
LSU Press: Member, Press Committee, 1994-97
French Historical Studies: Member, Board of Editors, 1988-91.
Jewish Museum of New York: Consulting scholar, 1983-88, for the exhibition The Dreyfus Affair: Art, Truth, and Justice (open 13 September1987-14 January 1988).

Articles in:  

American Historical Review
French Historical Studies
French Politics and Society
The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms
Catholic Historical Review
Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
Third Republic/Troisième République
Contemporary French Civilization
Laurels: American Society of the Legion of Honor magazine

 

About  France and the Après Guerre

About  France in 1938

 

Books:  

France in 1938 (2005): A History Book Club Selection
France and the Après Guerre, 1918-1924: Illusions and Disillusionment (1999)
Crime and Criminal Justice Under the Third Republic: The Shame of Marianne (1990)
The Hypocrisy of Justice in the Belle Epoque (1984)
Count Albert de Mun: Paladin of the Third Republic (1978)